Improvement in cooking-stoves



J. L. NORTON.

Cooking Stove.

Patented Feb. 27, 1849.

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IMPROVEMENTHN CQGKiNG STOl/ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. ll 37, dated February27, 1829.

To aZZ' whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J :LllIEs L. NORTON, of Perry township, in thecounty of J ciferson and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in CookingStoves; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription of theprinciple or character which distinguishes them from all other thingsbefore known, and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and usingthe same, reference being had to theaccompanyin g drawings, whichillustrate the same, in which- Figure 1 is an isomctrical projection.Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

The same letters refer to like parts in both the figures.

The nature of my improvements consists in constructing the double-bottomof the oven so as to make the inclined back 0 to the front flue, d, ofthe fire-place like a Franklin stove, and admitting cold air at thelower angle thereof, which ascends through the oven and is carried oilthrough a hole in the top of the oven, either into a pipe when requiredfor heating apartments, or into the fiue when cooking in the oven. Thefine at the back of the stove is carried up above the upper horizontalline, by which the draft is increased and the counter current, usual indouble fines, avoided, by causing the ascending flue to cross thehorizontal one.

The stove in its exterior is something like a common Franklin stove inform, with an open fire-place, a, and also with an oven, 1), above it.

Below the bottom, f, of the oven are two plates, 0 c, inclined downwardat an angle, as shown in Fig. 2, and there is a fiue at their front 4and back 0, the rear flue, 0, being more contracted than the frontonethat is, the oven is placed a little nearer the back plate than thefront one-and both of them extending the whole breadth of thefirechamber.- Above the angular plates 0, over the fire, there isanother plate, f, forming the oven bottom, which has a space, p, at eachend for the hot air to ascend through into the oven, and in the centerthere is an opening furnished with a cover, 9, that can be re moved atpleasure. At the lowest point of the inclined plates 0 0 there is ahole, h, in each side plate of the stove, which admits the 1 externalair, and effects the double purpose of preventing the plates frombecoming too highly heated at that point, and also of properlydisseminating the heat in the oven, and when wanted for the purpose ofconveying heat to apartments beyond the room in which the stove issituated this chamber can be con nectcd with proper pipes for thatpurpose at 70. At the center of the top of the oven a hole is made, anddirectly above it, in the top stoveplatc, there is another, 2'. A pipe,k, can be fitted to these holes, and lead the hot air of the stove offin any direction. In cooking, this pipe can be removed, and the odorfrom the oven be made to pass up the smoke-pipe of the stove. In frontthe top plate has two boiler-holes, and the hole 2' can also benscd forthe same purpose. Over the back line there is an upward projection, m,which is for the purpose of aiding the draft and prcventin gcounter-currents when the two fines meet.

The fire-chamber may be furnished with a grate or andirons.

Having thus fully described my improved stove, what I claim therein asnew, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is

i 1. The combination of the air'ehamber be low the oven and the movablepipe for corn vcying off the hot air, as above set forth.

2. In combination with the double fines, the projection on, rising abovethe back flue before it contracts into the size of the pipe, arrangedsubstantially in the manner and for the purpose herein made known.

JAMES L. NORTON.

Witnesses:

J. J. GREENOUGH, T. 0. Don.

